the foreign action looming in africa now as the u.n. bring likes military intervention in mali to tackle islam it's made criticism of the un's actions in libya create a crisis. calls for more anti american protests and a holy war against the u.s. while egypt one of washington's longtime allies in the region see signs of growing islamization. to gas and stun grenades are again directed by peaceful protesters in the latest

crackdown that's drawing little attention in most international news outlets. and the family of a journalist working with the russian media in syria tells our team she was kidnapped in an area of intense clashes between the government and the rebel. hello nine pm saturday evening or moscow this is r.t. live with me kevin i mean first this mali in west africa might soon see foreign troops on the ground now that a u.n. security council resolutions pave the way for international intervention mali which is basically split into right now once held to deal with is the most extreme assume taken over the north the small nation plunged into chaos in march after a coup toppled the president and rebels and islamist groups took advantage of that instability seizing control of the north and proclaiming independence historian

gerald horne explained why it might be too late for the world community to clean up a mess that traces back to the interference of one of mali's neighbors. there is no question what is happening in mali which is a humanitarian crisis and disaster as the director. of the north atlantic country intervention in libya in two thousand and eleven. in order to dislodge colonel gadhafi the north atlantic countries had to dock tons of weapons into libya which inevitably leaked into neighboring mali which they're to for had been relatively stable with the leaking of these weapons into mali you saw the eruption of civil unrest and then military unrest in northern mali and now what we have is that a now quite of like formation has taken hold of a region of northern mali that has mortar than the state of france what has fallen and what has happened in the wake of the overthrow of the authorities and bomb a co has been the flogging of suspected criminals the

taishan and some suspected he used the persecution of single mothers tens of thousands have fled into neighboring algeria mauritania night share it's also fair to say that this event in northern mali has given a jolt of success to so-called as long as this throughout northern and northwestern africa. his influence and profile of the region's been boosted by recent events then the terror group has called for a jihad against the us of america made film that mocking the prophet muhammad is later urged more protests outside the u.s. embassies in the middle east while praising last month's assaults on the consulate in libya that killed four diplomats egypt where the group's current leader comes from has seen large protests against the growing islam as a sion of the country a young liberals rally turned ugly when muslim brotherhood supporters also descended on tahrir square and clashed with anti-government demonstrators over one

hundred were injured in egypt's most violent protests since one hundred morsi came to office just go to jail tryst sees a former u.s. senate foreign policy analyst told me the threat of radicalization of egypt is now very real. and we were seeing a very rapid islamisation of the political structure in egypt and nobody should be surprised at this. if there was a lot of discussion about the power struggle that would ensue between morsi in the military and it seems that morsi and the brotherhood have triumphed much quicker than anybody expected and nobody should doubt what their ultimate intentions are in terms of strict enforcement of our sharia and the recreate the caliphate the khilafat and so i think this statement about jihad to recapture jerusalem should not come as any surprise to anyone i don't think the peace treaty with israel ultimately will be honored but we will see what form that takes and what it will take it i think the most important thing that strikes me is it shows the utter

incoherence of american policy in the arab world by promoting the islamization of egypt to the removal of our long time satrap in egypt hosni mubarak and then we seem surprised that democracy in egypt has taken this direction. and this further trouble in the region and most being labeled the forgotten revolution coming up tonight security forces. once again lash out at peaceful protesters demanding political reforms as the molecules reinforces the ties of the powerful military back in great britain more. but next the family of a journalist who's been helping russian news outlets in syria has told r t that she's been kidnapped near the city of holmes the area is a scene of intense fighting between government forces and the opposition our correspondent in the region a really good because following this story. the husband. question of a has contacted r t and saying that she was abducted on hard courts to i was working in

syria she has been there for almost a year and now she has been to all the major hotspots in this country torn by the civil war as well as russian diplomats in syria are working on establishing what exactly has happened to her and where for whereabouts could be we have also been contacted by one of her whole weeks and this is how she described the situation where you know the time had hopes to help to freshen journalist. since then. and haven't been needed to retrain herself then throw a channel that she was capturing by a group of people not far from syria remains a highly unstable ground for work for journalists well known are going is a sure reporters without borders have come out with an open letter directed at the free syrian army they have said and i'm quoting that they have been condemning the attacks on foreign and local journalists by the version they have also

unfortunately witnessed. and have received reports from the news of syria's pro-government media who are saying that they have been increasingly becoming targets of abduction and murder of targets of opposition groups while foreign journalists are also reporting that they are being targets of death threats from opposition groups of course he will be keeping a close eye on the situation in regards to the journalists missing in syria the syrian opposition is being increasingly held relate to this the rebels say fighters from the islamist front hoping to attack and seize new defense space on the outskirts of the major city of aleppo just starbird from executive intelligence review magazine says rebels growing links with terrorist groups should ring alarm bell for their foreign supporters. the syrian opposition is increasingly being dominated by the same al qaeda linked jihadi networks that just recently assassinated an american ambassador and three other american diplomats in benghazi

libya the opposition has clearly run aground in terms of any military capacity to overthrow the assad regime so the opposition is resorting to suicide bombings car bombings the standard techniques of qaida that they're continuing to use against the united states in afghanistan and iraq it's a terrible embarrassment that the united states is back in bed with al qaida minus osama bin ladin. tensions are heating up to pertain syria and its neighbor turkey with ankara still holding on to cargo confiscated from a syrian plane tickets says the shipment contains russian made weapons claims strongly denied by russia you can find out more about the diplomatic standoff see dot com our web site also exclusive first hand reports from the passengers on the

crew of the plane intercepted by turkey to describe how badly they were treated and prayer for just one of the many stories on our web site tonight for. an october of discontent continues in the stricken a u.s. tens of thousands of angry students march across italy their rage by cuts to education spending which have already been imposed by the government headed by prime minister mario monti and just thirty sentiments also expected in the spanish capital later today crowds already start to gather there and also in spades up in fresh clashes in barcelona between those supporting and opposing catalonia is independence young west comes as the e.u. was awarded this year's nobel peace prize for sowing peace across the continent while i spoke to financial advisor marco pierre tripoli about that he told me he doesn't see how the award can be justified especially now. the use.

of force of peace it's a force of rest and a force of instability. in a way can it be justified that nobel peace price would be given. we could look at we have to look at the future and watch things develop because i fear that a significant civil unrest potentially a breakup of the of the concept of the european union the situation is very dark in many many places and say should movements and separatist movements may well. when you have. situation of extremely high unemployment i'm very very dismal prospects if the current policies continue will stare at sea and continuing build our national debt our pursuit. the e.u. is keeping the continent in place than those who defended it at the time discovered

. it's just too. british world war two veterans and russians to. also. realize all the religions with. you look at each different book every book has a similar story the residents are about to get in new york to see if sunday praises gone past say. after this break. you can tell. in the blink of an. anthropologist. those days siberians were different clothes different food. different animals. but what about. my journey. but the big city was

all shiny skyscrapers and shopping malls much like any other prosperous russian. so i decided to. a small town just outside. dumplings came from here to dominate the russian cuisine but only in siberia. with cabbage and making sure you can have as a starter main dish. although it may draw the. most people in siberia see nothing wrong with hunting only if you decide to participate.

when you look upon mountain. like the muck as in the middle of a swamp only accessible by into some. and one to a falseness cliff the dogs it's inhabited by sudbury and a large muslim minority that migrated head before the russians. and this. israel siberia maybe not the stuff of tourism brochures but distinctive enough to show that all through all these yeahs siberia still not quite like anywhere else. wealthy british style. time.

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are you watching r t thanks being with us this saturday evening know what's been dubbed the invisible arab spring continues to unravel in bahrain police used tear gas and stun grenades to disperse hundreds of peaceful protesters. at least ten people were arrested the demonstrations have continued almost nonstop since last february but often met by a heavy response from the country's security forces meanwhile britain's now signed a bill a three treaty with the state seen as a sign of support for the under fire regime i spoke to dominate kavakeb from the nation's justice and development movement who believes western nations have too much to lose from reforms in bahrain. you know obviously it doesn't send a particularly fantastic message when you are sending weapons to a country that is using weapons against its people on a daily basis to kill to injure to crush protests to crush essentially democracy but i think. the reason why why the u.s. and other countries do that is because they want to keep the brain as an ally seen

as an ally of western countries and therefore they want to try and keep that relationship but what these governments don't realize that they are not refuse to realize they have a huge amount of leverage they have a lot of ability to convince about rain or to pressure them into reform perhaps they misunderstand the strength they have or perhaps you know they're scared that their interests which are tied up in that region could be damaged if they you know if there were a democratic change but the reality is the people of bahrain of calling for democracy they're calling for change i don't have to be against the western interests actually i could be very much in the interests of the west and i know the rest of the world democratic and stable country will be good eyewitness accounts online from someone who took part in the latest process that said to violence so also on our website. capital but where events have been spiraling over the past months. britain is preventing its heroic veterans from receiving orders for saving countless lives during the second world war they'd risk themselves some perilous

journeys to help their brothers in arms sarah firth explains what's stopping their valid from being properly rewarded. think the worst journey in the world winston churchill's description of the grim ordeal that faced the british soldiers who were part of the arctic convoys during world war two getting supplies to russian forces the convoy faced danger from above and below you could not see your base and aircraft it was going into the spray and how it was. just so there. the temperature. below zero i mean i was nineteen years of age eighteen years of age going up to russia and then do an order. but we've done it well could our because the chopper to peter jones stories and memories are among the most harrowing of the war for the russians it was more than

just supplies it was psychological support contributing hugely to the war. that's why in april the russian president awarded the issue of medal to the allies he taking part in the convoy missions but incredibly the push governments blocking russia from rewarding british veterans for their valor. of the arctic convoys in recognition of your outstanding contribution inter allied cooperation due to world war two the description american attack. apparently unless the british government. is a non starter what i think. forgivable war the foreign office third it's against the rules in order for permission to be given for an award to be accepted there has to be a specific service to the country concerned and that service should have taken

place within the previous five years john's wife says that's ridiculous they're all late eighty's early ninety's some of them what on earth are they supposed to do over the last five years they still pray at maine or what they were during the war it never leaves them. so why are they being painted and not being given this. i think it's disgraceful absolutely disgraceful angry not just from a whole mile the ship might those and those who passed on across the bars please cite to me this disgusting john says it's time the current prime minister says that to be the decent thing. we was there and then died yes we were all in together us the russians the americans for the belgium yes we were all in it together they currently we've been left there because you believe we can lift this

medal everybody's going. early but the foreign countries we're not the campaign is in both britain and russia i refusing to back down in pitching the government to get these men properly rewarded for their bravery it's. really extraordinary service and be worth. important people during the work to see that. in the pivotal wartime allies he found friendship real adversity illustrated by john's pictures and stories of his time working with the russians like dancing and bartering. these are the medals that john with the for his heroic deeds during world war two he was taking along with the other veterans involved in the arctic

convoys to add the it's called medal to their collection but as long as the british government continues to refuse to allow them to be awarded they won't be adding that medal that they say to serve r.t. london. europe's cash drug countries are scratching around for any cash the counting these days it's in these planning go to different sounds into the church collection temporarily with plans to strip the catholic church of its tax exempt status in order to purge holes in the country's budget reported with an online might also a degree of drilling you know america's hunger for energy means plugging up college campuses to get at the gas underneath the. sunday worship used to be routine for millions of americans today that the congregations are looking a little sparse artesian the big apple to see where the new yorkers need faith lived. a new pew poll indicated one in five americans has no religion and more and more

americans are becoming atheists is america losing its religion and if so why this week let's talk about that i think as we get smarter we realize all the religions with the same you look at each different book every book has a similar story. it's all the same we're on one planet there should be one war doesn't matter if you're in pakistan or new jersey well i think i see more people that maybe keep to themselves i mean you can be religious without going to a sanctuary or something along that line so i think the perception has probably changed a little bit i just got baptized last year everybody has their own way of coming to their beliefs but for us it was just you know we're getting older and you know we're getting closer to those they say the pearly gates on what we agree as was insurance you got baptized for insurance purposes. believe what you want to believe but don't force it on other people or use it for you know things that hurt other

people is that what it is is that people see the organized religion as something detrimental to other people well i'm speaking i guess for mostly myself here but yeah that's what makes sense to me yeah when you see wars being waged in the name of religion it makes you think yes the bottom line is american seems to be losing their faith in organized religion which might be less of a sign of their waning spirituality and more of an indication that it might be time to reorganize. u.s. politicians adopting fresh technology to reel in more votes in the elections cuts next on capital account with lower enlisted. looters that takes your breath away a few tourists travel to these paul it's no prepackaged confort but they joy is

a wild these guaranteed guineas a zoology professor he works in the u.s. and travels to these remote areas in russia every summer as he says he confines untouched landscapes like these anywhere else in the world. we're going off the list below sea line. if i go wrong the rover and surprise you will go straight to the water and so we did our plan to get closer to the sea lion and shake its flipper field a little before. one animal whose par you definitely wouldn't want to shake here is the brown bear you can literally spot a grizzly here by every small weaver this sort of bears are they have a very good sense of well we will pull through that we have to keep an eye a wind direction at the best of them and both up all that could be dangerous so we're going to go yes to shell but people require. it.

and quiet we went but the wind was not on our side and the bear got away and they're usually the first to avoid contact with humans but during spawning time when both people and bears go fishing people often shoot at them to scare them away and every year here in the region you hear about someone being killed by the predators. but at the mugger down nature reserve where we are no one disturbs the bears peanuts another local resident to haiti's peace being disturbed here is the sea eagle in has a wingspan of two and a half meters ignace only here in russia far east because of the bundles of salmon and sea gulls which feed the giant bird in his studies if gainey focuses on birds so he took me to one of his favorite places here mara island it has the biggest

colony of seagulls in the region and the climb up was tough. but the prize was worth it. if there was no security here it would be no reason there you will have tons of people coming here not just to get some for me on the beach here nothing is guaranteed you have to struggle to get your piece of bread there is nothing really how you can. predict you have to rely on yourself a few bucks. or so we're going to have to be the fat. maybe for the wildlife here is the lack of caesar's is to the better but when you stand on top of this you just cantelupe wanting to share the beauty.

good afternoon welcome to capital account i'm more and lister here in washington d.c. these are your headlines for october twelfth two thousand and twelve the u.s. vice presidential debate was last night if you missed it here's one of our favorite moments. never just going to lower tax rates increase growth brought already you know you're just getting ronald reagan who. will leave that whole thing to your judgment but we will say campaigning has come a long way since jack kennedy's era though he was part of a paradigm shift where candidates used t.v. to sway public opinion is as similarly powerful transformation now upon us our gas to victory lab off their soft isenberg says political campaigns have historically been resistant to innovation will tell us how this has changed and we often talk about algorithmic trading what about algorithmic campaigning oh yeah we'll talk

about the data mining modeling and scientific techniques being used to win votes and get voters to polls in this election and just like in finance we'll talk about the challenges brought on by complexity plus the e.u. wins the nobel peace prize. we'll talk about it in loose change and respond to some of your viewer feedback let's get to today's capital account. last night was the veep debate in the us and if you pay attention to the message the commentary the fact checking the alternative analysis and criticism or even the horse race coverage there may still be much more that you are missing about what

goes on behind the curtains deep within the campaign war rooms we often make mention of how dark pools and algorithmic trading have changed the dynamic of market making and financial markets it seems similarly what you could call algorithmic campaigning has changed the dynamics of what it means to campaign and elect a president in the u.s. just like the markets are not of the same scale there is big money at stake the washington post reports between obama romney and the super pacs that support them they're on track to spend more than two billion dollars by election day what is data mining and behavioral sciences do to enable campaigns to spend this money and what's going on in the presidential candidate al gore wars well joining me now is sasha eisenberg journalist and he wrote the book on this he's author of the victory lab which is really interesting and i'm so excited to talk to him all about it so thank you.